Nick Synder

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  1. Was born and raised in Morristown, NJ
  2. Mom was a school librarian
  3. Spent a lot of his time as a kid in the library
  4. Lived in New Brunswick, Edison and Piscataway, NJ and Sacramento, CA
  5. Been married for 32 years
  6. Has a daughter named Alison and shes 23
  7. Also has three cats (Simon, Layla and Tybalt)
  8. Went to college at Rutgers and got a degree in philosophy
  9. Got 100 rejections before he got anything sold
  10. Worked as an editor for Creative Computing Magazine, started in 1980
  11. 2 Years later he was offered a job for designing and programming video games
  12. Created Home Alone for game boy, and Fantastic Voyage and River Raid 2 for the Atari 2600
  13. Was a translator on Carmen Sandiego, Shanghai and Ultima
  14. Got back into writing and selling stories in 1994
  15. Stopped writing from (1989 - 1990) to do some more video game work
  16. Designed and programed Frogger 2 for the game boy
  17. Also has short stories in many collections
  18. Has series about Frogs and in Lost and Found
  19. Also wrote scary books
  20. One of his favorite hobbies is reading
http://www.davidlubar.com/personal.html#bio

  1. Wrote ten young adult books in six years
  2. Writes funny stories on teen dramas
  3. His stories involve zombies, witches, and unimaginable characters
  4. He is mostly known as a short story writer and a novelist
  5. Has a regular humor column for Voice of Youth
http://www.bookrags.com/biography/david-lubar-aya/

  1. He now lives in PA
  2. He has no marketable job skills
  3. Lives with his wife
http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-lubar-david.asp

  1. Born March 16, 1954
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lubar

  1. His first game he programed was Bumper Blocks
  2. When he builds he tries to fool around so he can see how everything works
  3. Dan Kitchen and David Lubar discussed when designing River Raid 2 to get all they can in the game
  4. His favorite 2600 game was Fantastic Voyage
http://www.dadgum.com/halcyon/BOOK/LUBAR.HTM